Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people (as of 2009, see table) in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.8% of the World's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Not counting the disputed territory of Western Sahara, there are 53 countries, including Madagascar and various island groups, associated with the continent.
Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely regarded within the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago – including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens (human) found in Ethiopia being dated to ca. 200,000 years ago.
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
Eurasian continent after the second. An area of 29,200,000 square kilometers (30.2 million square kilometers with a total island). A total of 469 million population (1980). Band-like terrain with high plains, plateaus, and Taiwan-based original, there is a vast hinterland of the structural basin. Longest river is the Nile. There Congo River, Niger, Senegal River, Gambia River, Orange River. Major types of vegetation to tropical savanna and desert (the largest is the Sahara desert), approximately 80% of the area of Africa. Animals elephant, rhino, hippo, zebra, antelope, lion, leopard, monkey and so on. Minerals are diamond, uranium, gold, iron, aluminum, copper, cobalt, beryllium, etc.
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全称“阿非利加洲”
The full name of "Afrikaans Island." The southwest in the eastern hemisphere, western Atlantic Ocean, east of the Indian Ocean, north of the Mediterranean. An area of 30,200,000 square kilometers, is the world's second largest continent. Population of 7 48 billion (1996). Plateau are large, high-lying southeast to northwest. Most of the tropical climate. Plant and animal species. Diamond, gold, cobalt and other mineral resources are abundant. Rich variety of cash crops. Residents were mainly black, mainly north of the Sahara desert Arabs are white. Total of 55 countries and regions.
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n.: AFRICA, cola, comoro, comoros, congo, gnu, wildebeest, ACP(African, Caribbean and Pacific Group), Africa-New Zealand Service
Central Africa